Amazon pulls mangled ebooks from Kindle shelves
Amazon on Friday yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks shop.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 7, 2014
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Canada, publishers reach ebooks competition settlement
Four major ebook publishers reached a settlement Friday with Canadian authorities to end practices which officials said choked off competition and kept prices high.
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Feb 7, 2014
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Digital piracy casts shadow over ebook world
With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates, much as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.
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Oct 13, 2011
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'Enhanced ebooks' take giant book fair by storm
Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it a game? Or all three? Publishers and authors at the world's biggest book fair are battling to entice a new generation of readers with the latest multimedia products.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 6, 2010
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Japan's Rakuten to buy Canada's Kobo e-reader firm
Japan's top online retailer Rakuten on Wednesday said it had agreed to pay $315 million in cash for Kobo Inc., the maker of a popular e-reader in Canada whose majority shareholder is book retailer Indigo.
Business
Nov 9, 2011
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Amazon to start Japan ebook business: reports
US online giant Amazon will start a Japanese-language ebook business as early as this year, the Nikkei business daily and Jiji press said Thursday.
Business
Oct 20, 2011
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Despite slow start, ebooks gain ground in Europe
Electronic books, which have sparked excited chatter for several years in the publishing world, are now gaining momentum among European readers, despite a late start compared to the US, industry insiders say.
Business
Oct 11, 2012
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Do we really own our digital possessions?
Microsoft has announced that it will close the books category of its digital store. While other software and apps will still be available via the virtual shop front, and on purchasers' consoles and devices, the closure of ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 8, 2019
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World's biggest publishers' fair eyes safe future for books
The world's biggest book fair, which opened Tuesday, wants to put paid to fears for the survival of the book in its traditional, bound form in the face of its digital rival's growing popularity.
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Oct 11, 2011
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Amazon conjures rights to borrow Harry Potter ebooks
Amazon said Thursday it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library.
Business
May 10, 2012
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